Washington State is a worrisome
window into the future

Sandford is right to highlight the leftist garbage in Wa. St. But like most, his background and views are about three counties west of the Cascades. Longshoremen and loggers are only a part of the history. Usually ignored are the fur trappers, farmers and silver mining magnates in the eastern part of the state (and loggers, too) who drove the development of the largest rail center north of Denver and west of Chicago, that being Spokane. Sandford is too parochial to analyze the big picture. In the last general election the eastern half was red, excepting Whitman county, which I believe was due to the presence of WSU and some Palouse farmers which are state's version of the DFL party. If any entity needs to secede it's Eastern Washington and Oregon. The secede Texas movement is delusional. The federal tentacles run deep in the state with military bases, intelligence activities and of course Pantex. Would the population centers of Seattle, Tacoma and Portland really care of the East secedes? I think they would love it. Then they could go back to their safe spaces, drink latte, and not have to contend with our religious viewpoints and other so-called hick practices. I'd say good riddance to wet, moldy, depressing burned out western POS and get on with life.

Being from NE Washington state, I would be the first to sign on to seceding from the moldy wet west side. We, in my neck of the woods, are sick and tired of being out voted by the communist on the west side.

Wet Washington's worrisome window will work wonders with willing workers.

Already well said by #1. Washington State west of the Cascades is a different world. I think it's the ionized air that's driving the coastal Washington, Oregon, and California populations bat sh it crazy.

Don't know about the longshoremen singing songs. I just asked my son, who is a third generation longshoreman about that and he said there may be a few who show up with commie literature on a table they've set up at the hall but they're mostly older guys and he said he can't remember the last time that's happened. My dad, my brother, my son and now my granddaughter are longshoremen. (though my dad retired in '85 and died in '02 and my granddaughter is still a casual laborer, not in the union yet.) Seattle, specifically King county, is about left-wing as it gets, but it's not so much blue collar workers, it's all the young tech people and they have a real disdain for anyone who works 'with their hands', so I don't understand why anyone who 'works' for a living would be a liberal. Also, I blame a couple who I won't name here, for the reason Republicans can hardly win any office. They took control of the party back in the '90's and they were about as far right, Christian fundamentalist as it gets. Both of them have since died but honestly, I don't think Republicans will ever be a force in the state again.

In a couple of years our little town has become a hotbed of homeless, druggies and crime because of local politicians. I wonder if federal money is being held back because of this. I think funds have been cut for police. This was in local paper. PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles City Council has voted to oppose President Donald Trump’s executive order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping The council voted 7-0 Tuesday to direct Mayor Kate Dexter to promptly co-sign a statement from the National Innovation Service opposing the Sept. 22 order on behalf of the city of Port Angeles as an organization. Council member Lindsey Schromen-Wawrin added the letter as a late item for the council’s agenda

"Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, 1932. I read this in place of "Animal Farm." Government "creches" where all children are raised. Apparently, as soon as a woman (XX at chromosome 23) has a child, it placed in the mandatory government housing/educational child-rearing facility.

I am a life long resident of Washington State. I grew up in the 1960s when Washington was moderate. We elected both conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans. Now we have not elected a Republican governor in the last 40 years. The change was brought on by a migration of people from California. They found Washington a safer, cleaner and most importantly less expensive place to live. Unfortunately, they did not understand that Democrat policies such as increasing taxes and regulations were what was making it increasingly difficult to live in California so Democrat policies came along with them. Voting age was lowered to 18 in 1971, Blanket Primary elections (Voters could only vote for one party) in 1992, Motor Voter in 1993, Top two primary in 2004 (after the Blanket Primary was declared unconstitutional) and finally Vote by mail 2005. Interestingly vote by mail was adopted a year after the Democrat governor was elected by 183 votes following a surge of absentee ballots. Washington State is now a national leader in; problems with housing, homeless, race riots, sanctuary cities, traffic problems, mass transit fraud, progressive education and stringent COVID-19 policies. Today our local media is so proud that Governor Inslee (a 30-year career Democrat) is on Joe Biden’s short list for a cabinet position.

King county and now Pierce are both becoming tent city slums spreading out along the many tax funded parks and trails where families once enjoyed the awesome beauty of that State. Now as the tents, needles, lawless and threatening mob has taken over those formerly pristine areas of nature's beauty, it has become increasingly dangerous groups to venture out there. This area which puts so much emphasis on children now seems to be adopting policies which are stealing their right to a happily safe and secure childhood in which they are free to explore and grow in Wisdom, not dictated to by leftist pols who want to make even the most personal decisions for them using globalist policies. Western Washington, so wonderful just 2 or 3 decades ago, now presents a sad example for the rest of the country and its families & children to follow.

Just goes to show you what happens when you let all those Californians in. Like the boll weevil they go from place to place destroying previously nice places.